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...Never to war actively upon each other, reserving only the right to defend themselves...
...Briand, before rallying to defend France, made close inspection of the League committee's findings, noted a certain fact. Then, cried he, in an impassioned address to the Council: "This mass of information appears to have been gleaned from self-confessed exploiters of women or from other persons of such dubious morals that their testimony cannot escape suspicion...
...good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred to control of the Department of the Interior-a transfer which has long been proposed and often postponed. Secretary Davis said: "Never has the government of the Philippine Islands been in so satisfactory and promising condition as today." And Secretary Davis said...
...that he was surprised by the Chamber's "misconception of facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross...
...face has made a shadow upon chess boards in many a country Every game he plays Alexander Alekhine remembers. He can describe without scorebook, the moves in almost any game played in any important tournament in the last 30 years. He speaks six languages. In 1929, probably, he will defend his title against Capablanca...